Magnificent Octopus

Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany , by Jane Mount, is whimsical and lovely, a true miscellany. I kind of love it for its lists and gr...

It's Independent Bookstore Day , and I feel I ought to spend my day patronizing some. Truth is, there aren't too many in these parts...

Yesterday for lunch I went to the bookstore. Food for thought, food for the soul. Usually I just like to browse, just being in a bookstore b...

We went down the hill to the bookshop, sort of automatically, as if that's the way all our feet wanted to turn. I said that to them. ...

"You know, Goethe once described Shakespeare (to Eckermann) as a wildly overgrown tree that — for two hundred years straight — had stif...

Had the Chief Inspector been blindfolded he could have described the familiar shop. The walls were lined with bookcases filled with hardcove...

I'm at my mother's this week and not reading much at all, but I did manage to duck out of a downtown shopping-for-home-decor boutiqu...